Mississippi’s Republican-led Senate votes against confirming veteran educator Robert P. Taylor as state superintendent of education, angering some Black Democrats who say the rejection was at least partly because Taylor is Black.
, angering some Black Democrats who said the rejection was at least partly because Taylor is Black and wrote years ago about the state’s racist history.
“The fact that they didn’t, that is what I have to live with,” Taylor said. “I will always respect the process.” Taylor grew up in Laurel, Mississippi, and earned his bachelor’s degree in 1990 at the University of Southern Mississippi. As an undergraduate, he wrote for a newsletter called “The Unheard Word,” which he said gave Black students a voice that the campus newspaper often ignored.website focused on the short-lived newsletter.
The Senate vote on Taylor’s nomination Wednesday was mostly along party lines, 31 Republicans voting against. Of the 21 who voted for confirmation, five were Republicans and the others were Democrats. “He answered that by saying, ’At that time, that’s how I felt,” Johnson told reporters Wednesday after the nomination failed.
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